Invariably Intent On Exploring A Country, From Which Curiosity Promises
So Many Gratifications, His Excellency About This Time Undertook An Expedition
Into The Interior Parts Of The Continent.
His party consisted of
eleven persons, who, after being conveyed by water to the head of the harbour,
proceeded in a westerly direction, to reach a chain of mountains,
which in clear weather are discernible, though at an immense distance,
from some heights near our encampment.
With unwearied industry they continued
to penetrate the country for four days; but at the end of that time,
finding the base of the mountain to be yet at the distance of more than
twenty miles, and provisions growing scarce, it was judged prudent to return,
without having accomplished the end for which the expedition had been
undertaken. To reward their toils, our adventurers had, however, the pleasure
of discovering and traversing an extensive tract of ground, which they
had reason to believe, from the observations they were enabled to make,
capable of producing every thing, which a happy soil and genial climate
can bring forth. In addition to this flattering appearance, the face
of the country is such, as to promise success whenever it shall be cultivated,
the trees being at a considerable distance from each other, and the
intermediate space filled, not with underwood, but a thick rich grass,
growing in the utmost luxuriancy. I must not, however, conceal, that in this
long march, our gentlemen found not a single rivulet, but were under
a necessity of supplying themselves with water from standing pools,
which they met with in the vallies, supposed to be formed by the rains
that fall at particular seasons of the year.
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